| I am a landscape design/builder, onset at 16 while a military dependent. Never could afford insurance so over the years I would volunteer for medical studies involving complications, I would get a full workup and be promptly rejected because I showed no signs.
I am sure that my first 30 years of control was very loose, I only started BG testing about 8 years ago.
For those first 30 yrs I took once a day an average of 50 unit of NPH , now I do a mix of R & NPH twice a day, total of 60 units. I test morning and evening.
WalMart has the cheapest insulin and $20/50 test strips, back in 1987 when they first opened here , for the first 2 years they sold insulin for $7.50. It has always upset me that the Bio-tech revolution in insulin production never has lead to a reduction in price.
To me good control is a balance of the three main variables Insulin, food and activity. My hypo-awareness has always been 15-20 minutes before I began to sweat, which in the days of urine testing probably helped me keep tighter control.
The hypo experience seems to be so highly variable because it is our brain cells screaming at us and the thoughts and behavior that manifest are dependent on our individual personalities. Paranoia, anxiety, or withdrawal what ever predisposition we possess is amplified. This variability is probably why screen writers get it so wrong so often.
Erich
Excuse my ignorance but I thought a bolus was the lump of chewed food that one swallows?  | 
